Example sentences of "straight across the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Great by-pass roads , like the East Lancashire by-pass , now plunge straight across the country , regardless of contours , using cuttings and embankments to keep as even a gradient as possible .
2 well any way look , if I made you a thin bit of steel straight across the centre like that
3 It 's about 1½ ″ below my shoulders and I am trying to grow it so that I can have a style that 's cut straight across the bottom .
4 Straight across the road ; your first turning right and there you are . ’
5 The boys were waiting to cross the road here and the horse came down this lane , galloped straight across the road in front of the traffic then onto the pavement , tried to jump over the boys and jumped onto the boys .
6 To the left of this peak was Koitobos Col , a low gap in the crater rim , and we aimed straight across the top of the valley towards it .
7 And er they drew their truncheons , that I 'd never seen before , policemen with truncheons , er and they started to run and everybody else started to run , and I forgot there was a puppy dog , this puppy dog it it chased it chased towards the er p policemen , and started er barking and d and carrying on , and one of the policemen did no more than thump it straight across the top of the head with a with a truncheon , and er and that was the end of the puppy .
8 The water went straight across the top .
9 In the last a frontal foot shows that Hermes stood on the right above the head of the emerging monster , like Athena in fig. 121 ; and the placing of the hero is very similar though the movement ( straight across the field as in the other ) is pulling instead of pushing .
10 You If you lived in Stead Park , the houses in Stead Park looked straight across the green onto the sea .
11 The road ran straight across the desert for twenty miles .
12 To save time , I determined to cut straight across the desert to Afdam instead of returning by the longer route we had come by .
13 This cameraman 's pal wanders out with a tripod , and also walks straight across the fairway .
14 glowing , I could n't stop them , straight across the floor , meoooww they were going there
15 His dark eyes flashed straight across the hall and pinned Jenna mercilessly .
16 It went straight across the area where Deane wellied in from about 6yds .
17 I looked at the buttons next to the fruit stall because what I usually do I go and get the fruit and vegetables , if Jim 's on the right shift he takes them home , otherwise I buy them while it 's quieter , the man keeps them for me , I go straight across the leisure centre to soft clay cos it 's only open on Wednesdays and then on the way back one of them walks
18 The Old Dyke was a dry ditch , fifteen paces broad and about ten feet deep , backed to the west with a bank of earth , dry , decayed , tumbled , but running straight across the forest for mile after mile , monument of some forgotten war centuries old .
19 Lachlan himself was handling the thick steering oar with casual strength , hauling steadily to keep the lymphad 's head straight across the wind .
20 A modified swing , straight across the line of the windrow leaves the butts to the left but this is harder and slower work .
21 Lord John was hurrying round the edge of the room , making for a back entrance , but Sharpe simply took the direct route which meant jumping from table to table straight across the room .
22 the wall just going to go straight across the garden
23 In draws Ormanroyd near post and he 's flicked it straight across the danger area .
24 It caught her straight across the neck and she probably owes her life to the fact that the drainpipe snapped .
25 Cos you do n't start right next to those do n't go straight across the racecourse .
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